Word: petain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marvejols, France. An honorary American citizen by virtue of his descent from La Fayette (and husband of Cincinnati-bred Margaret Rives Nichols), Old Statesman de Chambrun put in nearly half a century in the French government, is best remembered as the only Senator to vote against giving Marshal Petain dictatorial powers and establishing the sellout Vichy regime...
...heels of LIFE's success in the U.S., converted a struggling sports magazine, Match, into a thriving picture weekly. Prouvost went into politics with less success, was Minister of Information in the Reynaud government (1940) and briefly held the same job under Collaborationist Petain. When the Nazis invaded France, they killed his two magazines but turned
...turbulent French politics. "Don't go to sleep thinking a thing is impossible," he was fond of saying. "You'll probably be awakened by the noise of somebody else doing it." He was three times Premier of France before World War II. After France fell and Petain took over, Herriot mailed his Legion of Honor decoration to Vichy. The Nazis imprisoned him in Germany, and he was three times reported dead. But he came back and set up his own little camp along the tent-speckled riverbank of French politics, as nominal head of the right-of-center...
...Life: Married to Denise-Henriette Bloch. His only son Antoine, a parachutist, was killed in World War II; a daughter Lise is married to a silk dealer. Political Career: Headed French armament mission to London 1939. Returning to France after the 1940 collapse, he was denied all posts under Petain's anti-Semitic laws; escaped to North Africa in 1943, where he joined the Free French in Algiers. After the liberation of Paris, De Gaulle made him Public Works and Transportation Minister; later, French Commissioner for German Affairs. In 1947 he represented France at the U.N. As Finance Minister...
...Department (1934), to the Chamber of Deputies (1936) and to a seat in the French Senate (1938). For a short while, right after the war, he was out of office-kicked out by the newly dominant Resistance because he was one of 225 Senators who voted state powers to Petain in 1940. Pinay had not joined the Resistance; it offended his conservative sense of law & order. But villagers have since related that as mayor during the occupation, he hid Jews and issued false papers to Frenchmen hunted by the Gestapo. Shortly he was back in the Assembly, and within...